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Thermal Excitations of Warped Membranes
Andrej Kosmrlj, David R. Nelson
We explore thermal fluctuations of thin planar membranes with a frozen spatially-varying background metric and a shear modulus. We focus on a special class of -dimensional ``war…
Mechanical Properties of Warped Membranes
Andrej Kosmrlj, David R. Nelson
We explore how a frozen background metric affects the mechanical properties of planar membranes with a shear modulus. We focus on a special class of "warped membranes" with a prefe…
Elastic Platonic Shells
Ee Hou Yong, David R. Nelson, L. Mahadevan
On microscopic scales, the crystallinity of flexible tethered or cross linked membranes determines their mechanical response. We show that by controlling the type, number and distr…
Bending forces plastically deform growing bacterial cell walls
Ariel Amir, Farinaz Babaeipour, Dustin B. McIntosh +2
Cell walls define a cell shape in bacteria. They are rigid to resist large internal pressures, but remarkably plastic to adapt to a wide range of external forces and geometric cons…
Defects on cylinders: superfluid helium films and bacterial cell walls
David R. Nelson, Ariel Amir
There is a deep analogy between the physics of crystalline solids and the behavior of superfluids, dating back to pioneering work of Phillip Anderson, Paul Martin and others. The s…
Theory of interacting dislocations on cylinders
Ariel Amir, Jayson Paulose, David R. Nelson
We study the mechanics and statistical physics of dislocations interacting on cylinders, motivated by the elongation of rod-shaped bacterial cell walls and cylindrical assemblies o…